时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十)月


英语课

1. Colorado officials say there is no indication the balloon ordeal 1 was a hoax 2. A family reported their six-year-old son was in a helium balloon yesterday that floated away from their home. The boy was later found safe.


2. The federal budget deficit 3 has surged to an all-time high of 1.42 trillion dollars. That is the recession caused tax revenues to plunge 4 while the government was spending massive amounts to stabilize 5 the financial system and jump-start the economy.


3. A six-month-old baby miraculously 6 survived a train hitting his stroller. This video shows the baby stroller rolling onto the tracks.


4. The TLC network is suing Jon Gosselin for allegedly breaching 7 his contract. Gosselin is accused of appearing on rival network programs for pay and making unauthorized public disclosures about the show. Gosselin had starred since 2007 on the hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8".



n.苦难经历,(尤指对品格、耐力的)严峻考验
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
  • Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
v.欺骗,哄骗,愚弄;n.愚弄人,恶作剧
  • They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
  • They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。
n.亏空,亏损;赤字,逆差
  • The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
  • We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
v.跳入,(使)投入,(使)陷入;猛冲
  • Test pool's water temperature before you plunge in.在你跳入之前你应该测试水温。
  • That would plunge them in the broil of the two countries.那将会使他们陷入这两国的争斗之中。
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
ad.奇迹般地
  • He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death. 他奇迹般地从死亡线上获救。
  • A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000-volt electric shock. 一名男学生在遭受2.5 万伏的电击后奇迹般地活了下来。
攻破( breach的过去式 ); 破坏,违反
  • The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
  • Third, an agency can abuse its discretion by breaching certain principles of judge-made law. 第三,行政机关会因违反某些法官制定的法律原则而构成滥用自由裁量权。
学英语单词
Aconitum souliei
active defense
aides-de-camp
asynesia
Azalon
behavior-based system
bernonite
biological characteristics
brain fluid
broken bone
capital exporting country
catalog-protection technique
central ovarium cavity
chill wind
classification coefficient
compass deviation com pensation
connectionist model
constitutional psychopathia
cordoned-off
critical elongation
Daan District
defined item
degree of drought
dependence test
Digitalis ambigua Marray
dirt band
e-business
enviably
Faugh-a-Ballagh
federal fund
filksings
Finnophone
gas sample bulb
gas-analysis apparatus
genus Chalcis
genus notomyss
Gram negative
high-flying highway
histidinol
Horse and Hound
hose coupling gasket
hot pressed ceramics
hot-head
human-made
ignea
intrapulmonic pressure
irregular driving
lime-wash nozzle
macrocomplex
mat
maximal false vector
metallurgical balance sheet
minimal homeomorphism
Mlicrococcus bombycis
Namicunde
Nessler solution
Newton diagram
no.2
nonclassicality
nonskin
nsls
nwbws
off lining
operational version
ovaben
oxyacetylene blowpipe
palaeoethnobotanical
pattern matching system
phase balance
plugolas
plunks
pneumatic pumping unit
polykite
post-set
pseudotalopia sakuraii
pulliron
relative resolution of detector
response value
river terrace sand
Rodinal
semi-dock building berth
semi-polar double links
silae
slobbers
snowladies
Spumellina
stringy floppies
subsistencies
superextensive
taxpayer personally filling returns
there there
torsional fatigue failure
Uedelhoven
uncleanlier
underholding
variance of the Poisson process
Veronicastrum sibiricum
viburnum recognitums
villane
wolf berry
wooly worm
zipper-lock